Russell Sage-Supported Study Explores Effects of Education Level On Genetic Make-Up of US Population
Release Date:
05/31/2016
... was supported by the Russell Sage Foundation as well as by grants from the National Institute on Aging... Russell ...
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Ford Foundation's Elizabeth Alexander Elected to Pulitzer Prize Board
Release Date:
06/02/2016
Elizabeth Alexander, an acclaimed poet, author and professor, has been elected to the Pulitzer Prize Board, Columbia University announced today.
MAC AIDS Fund Supports New Video On Transgender Bathroom Access
Release Date:
06/24/2016
A new video released Friday attempts to ease the fears of those still squeamish about the open bathroom access that allows anyone to use bathrooms of the sex they identify with .
Mellon Foundation Gives $1.5M To Conserve African Art Collection
Release Date:
07/07/2016
The significant award will help launch VMFA’s newly conceived center for advanced study in art conservation.
Mellon Foundation Gives $500K to UC Merced for Humanities Undergrad Research
Release Date:
07/19/2016
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation grant will create a humanities-based expansion of the Undergraduate Research Opportunities Center, serving 60 students over three years.
Citi, Rockefeller Contribute to City's Nonprofit Mayor’s Fund to Advance New York
Release Date:
07/22/2016
The Mayor's Fund to Advance New York raised $25.4 million over the past year.
Rockefeller and Lincoln Center Bring Jazz to Young People
Release Date:
08/01/2016
The Rockefeller Foundation and Jazz at Lincoln Center are teaming up to put jazz in the ears of thousands of urban school children across the globe.
Here Are Mellon's Goals for Liberal Arts Education
Release Date:
09/13/2016
... grantmaking. If you're hustling for one of its many campus grants , which routinely reach into the seven figures, you .....
NY Life Foundation Supports Social- Emotional Learning In Middle Schools
Release Date:
10/05/2016
ExpandED Schools, a New York City nonprofit dedicated to closing the learning gap, has received a $1 million, three-year grant from the New York Life Foundation.
The Andrew W. Mellon Foundation Supports Liberal Arts to Fight Climate Change
Release Date:
10/14/2016
The Mellon Foundation believes that the liberal arts—and more to the point, the liberal arts skillset—have a lot to teach the sciences. In other words, the world needs people who can communicate effectively, think critically, and grasp the nuances...
Wallace Foundation Has Been Betting Big on Principals. What's It Learning?
Release Date:
11/01/2016
The funder recently launched a $47 million initiative to help universities improve their programs for developing principals. Before that was the funder's $85 million Principal Pipeline Initiative, which began in 2011.
New York Women's Foundation President Ana Oliveira Encourages Funders to Support Riskier Causes
Release Date:
11/03/2016
Since 2006, under Ana Oliveira’s leadership, the grant-making of what is billed as the largest women’s fund in the country increased from $1.7 million to $6 million to help women and girls in poverty across New York City.
Dyson Foundation Contributes to Longform Nonfiction Work
Release Date:
11/10/2016
I have good news for all of the journalism purists out there. Funders continue to see the value of deep and transformative investigative work in an age of 140 characters.
A Look at Open Society’s Ongoing Commitment to Human Rights in the Post-Election Environment
Release Date:
11/28/2016
... well as the darkest strains of human nature. Its earliest grants went to oppose totalitarian regimes in the communist ...
Rockefeller Foundation Choses Lincoln Center to Manage its NYC Cultural Innovation Fund
Release Date:
12/02/2016
... and arts experts to review proposals and recommend grants ... Rockefeller Foundation Choses Lincoln Center to ...
Shelley and Donald Rubin Foundation Supports Artists As Catalysts For Social Change
Release Date:
02/08/2017
The primary driver behind the Rubin Foundation's grant—the idea that artists should be catalysts for social change—is gaining more currency across the arts philanthropy field, much to the detriment of evergreen institutions like the Met.
Supported by Stavros Niarchos, Global Nonprofit Will Bring Literacy Tools to Refugee Children and Families
Release Date:
02/14/2017
Worldreader plans to launch Read to Kids Jordan in late 2017. The program will be made possible through a $1 million grant from the Stavros Niarchos Foundation (SNF), with additional support from Jordanian social and education entities.
Helmsley Charitable Trust Supports New Service to Aggregate Life Sciences Preprints
Release Date:
04/18/2017
In February 2017, ASAPbio received a $1 million grant from the Leona M. and Harry B. Helmsley Charitable Trust to develop a new service to aggregate life sciences preprints and promote their visibility and innovative reuse.
Rockefeller Brothers Fund Reframes its Global Democratic Practice Grantmaking Portfolio
Release Date:
04/25/2017
... governance remains a long term process, the portfolio of grants was significant in advancing democratic practice ...
Basic Science Funders – Including Simons Foundation - Ask, "How Do We Know if Our Giving is Working?"
Release Date:
06/05/2017
... Generally speaking, foundations want to know what their grants are accomplishing, or whether they should be putting ...